Shame on you!

Yesterday was International Womens' Day.

The St Helena Government proudly posted on its Facebook page about the "many wonderful achievements of St Helenian women and girls" while completely failing to mention that, in St Helena, it is still perfectly legal to pay a woman less for the same job as a man and advertise a job for men only.

Instead of a proud post they should be cowering in a corner in shame.

Smile for the camera!

Words cannot describe how bored I am with postings from Travel Shows.  Facebook and Twitter are infested with them.

I guess the island has to be represented, but do we need to see hundreds of postings showing images of people smiling at the camera with some stand in the background? How does this help us?

Why not give us some useful data: how many people visited the stand? how many said they would actually consider St Helena as a future tourist destination? Then we would know if the budget that pays for these excursions was being well spent, or should it instead be allocated to fixing the roads or improving benefits for the poor and needy.

Look! An iceberg....!

I see SHG says it's "looking into" the allegations against the hospital in Pretoria. Meanwhile another batch of patients left for there on Saturday......

Imagine SHG as Captain of the Titanic. Somebody spots an iceberg dead ahead, and we get this statement: 

"We have received unconfirmed reports of an iceberg dead ahead. We have contacted London and they are sending an Iceberg Expert to review the situation. He will arrive in three weeks and we should have his report in about six months' time. In the meantime the ship will continue at full speed on its present course".